Senior Engineering Manager

• Lead one of Dispatch's product engineering teams — the team responsible for our core user workflow and data orchestration platform.

• Own engineering execution end to end: roadmap sequencing with Product, project scoping, timeline accountability, and cross-functional progress communication.

• Serve as the connective tissue between Product and Engineering — ensuring the team builds the right things in the right order, at the pace the business demands.

• Drive engineering hiring end-to-end: headcount planning, JDs, interview loops, and closing.

• 10+ years in software engineering, including meaningful time as an IC and as an Engineering Manager.

  • 5+ years as an individual contributor engineer, with a track record of shipping high-quality, high-complexity systems

  • 5+ years managing engineering teams that have done the same

• Proven track record of growing and scaling an engineering organization — ideally from a small team to 20–30+ engineers.

• Experience at an early-stage startup — Series B or earlier, or fewer than 100 people at time of joining.

• Experience at seed/early-stage startups — being an early engineer or engineering manager during rapid growth phases

• Experience with:

  • Building and shipping software for enterprise customers — understanding the complexity of long sales cycles, multi-stakeholder implementations, and the reliability expectations that come with it.

  • Building with leading fintech APIs (Plaid, Stripe, etc).

  • Building APIs-as-a-product and/or B2B products.

  • Building data-intensive B2B platforms — particularly systems that orchestrate, sync, or transform data across third-party integrations.

• Experience founding or building something from scratch — a company, a product, or a meaningful side project.

• Experience with AI prompting, models, and tools — someone who not only leverages these in their work, but can help level up the team.

• Experience with our tech stack:

  • Backend: Golang, Postgres, AWS, Messaging, Protobuf, gRPC, Redis, GitHub Actions, Containerization, Terraform

  • Frontend: React, Node, Fastify, MUI, React Query, Vite, Storybook, Playwright

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